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![]() Edward Cowling London UK wrote: In message , Nick Cooper writes It was rather stunning to hear Tessa Jowell admit about half an hour ago that none of the 49 dead have been officially identified yet. There is still info coming out that is contradictory. We're told it all went off at 8:50, yet a guy is filming it happen at Edgware Road at 9:20. It's past the usual sloppy journalism phase and becoming annoying. This is very odd to me. I can understand two blasts reported within five minutes initially being treated as distinct times due to initial confusion. But 20 minutes? Anyone on their way to work knows the difference between "a little before 9" and a "quarter past 9".... it's the difference between getting to work on time and having to come up with a valid excuse. I wonder if any survivors have been interviewed with respect to the time they recall their train stopping? Even with the change in reported timeline, you still only need 2 guys to do all this damage. One guy gets on at King's Cross, rides a stop and drops a package on Circle line eastbound, gets off, grabs a Circle Line going westbound for one stop, drops a package and gets off at King's Cross .... he would even have time for the bus. The Picadilly Line would have to be a second person because of the timing. He would certainly have time to get the bus also. Edward Cowling London UK |
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Edward Cowling London UK wrote: In message , Nick Cooper writes It was rather stunning to hear Tessa Jowell admit about half an hour ago that none of the 49 dead have been officially identified yet. There is still info coming out that is contradictory. We're told it all went off at 8:50, yet a guy is filming it happen at Edgware Road at 9:20. It's past the usual sloppy journalism phase and becoming annoying. You've got that back to front. It was initially reported by the Metropolitan Police as 09.17, but the guy filming on the train showed it was 08.50. The Met police later corrected their time to 08.50, and said that 09.17 was the time of a phone call to the control centre. Apparently other witnesses report that the police were already in attendance by this time. So I guess it was a police error not a journalist error. David |
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Paul Terry wrote:
Since they were relatively small, I think it is possible they were placed under a seat. It doesn't look like it, though. r. |
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() wrote: Colin Rosenstiel wrote: In article . com, () wrote: The Picadilly Line would have to be a second person because of the timing. He would certainly have time to get the bus also. Why? The Circle Line trains had long left King's Cross by the time the Piccadilly train left there. The train bombs all went off at 08:50. They could have been planted on trains leaving King's Cross at about 08:42 (both on the Circle Line) and only just before 08:50 (Piccadilly). Since the timetable running times from King's Cross to Edgware Road and Liverpool Street were both 8 minutes in the information I have you'd have to check the actual running times on the day to see if one person could in practice have planted both bombs. I am making an assumption the Circle Line bombs were not merely dropped by the doors because you have too many stops for someone to become suspicious and possibly remove the package. Since they were relatively small, I think it is possible they were placed under a seat. Indeed, except there is no under-seat space on C stock. -- Colin Rosenstiel |
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Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
if one person could in practice have planted both bombs. How easy would it be for someone to get on a carriage and off at the next stop, leaving a bag, without looking suspicious? I would have thought that they'd need to stay on a couple of stops at least until the "his bag" information drops out of enough of the other passengers short term memory. If a bomber needs to stay on for four or five stops, to avoid looking too suspiciuos, do these one/two bomber scenarios still work? #Paul |
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